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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / October 2005way otp: lizard droppings?
well, this is the first time i've lived any place that has lizards. they are very slender, maybe 6 inches long, with electric blue tails. cute! lately, though, i've noticed droppings on my front walk. i researched them (i'm obsessed. so far since moving to raleigh i've researched orb weavers, bug eggs and now this. . .) and have narrowed down these white-tipped droppings to either a lizard or a snake. the lizards look too skinny to be producing these droppings. how do i know if they're from a lizard or a snake? diane, nature girl (not) > well, this is the first time i've lived any place that has lizards. > they are very slender, maybe 6 inches long, with electric blue tails. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > diane, nature girl (not) Gee Diane, between the things in your tub and now this, I can see you writing a really good sci fi movie :)) Carole Are you sure those are the only lizards around? In your neck of the woods, I'd expect some of the cute little green lizards, too ;) Um, the electric blue tail sounds a lot like a skink. At least down in Gainesville they could get larger than you say, but you didn't see the larger ones as much for some reason. Maybe you are just seeing the smaller ones. Gotta admit, you're the first person I've known down south who actually researched some of the droppings on the front walk. Most of us just live with them, maybe occasionally wash them off - a light bleach solution from time to time does wonder on the mold and dirt and droppings remnants.  SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare how do i know if they're > from a lizard or a snake? > > diane, nature girl (not) As a general rule if it has legs,,,, it is not a snake. Harv Anacondas and pythons have vestiges of the pelvic girdle in the form of spurs, but I would be surprised (and I guess you would too) if it were either one of those. I was following your bath egg? saga, but didn't get a final answer. Were the object in your water supply/bath insects or what ? Peter > how do i know if they're > > from a lizard or a snake? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > As a general rule if it has legs,,,, it is not a snake. > Harv <chuckling> maybe the droppings come from a snizzard? at least in the meantime, until you discover your local naturalist, an elderly person, or a kid in the neighborhood to ask. yeah, snizzard droppings sound about right. don't they? kate > well, this is the first time i've lived any place that has lizards. > they are very slender, maybe 6 inches long, with electric blue tails. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > diane, nature girl (not) kate, good to hear your sense of humor is intact. or maybe it's just the pain meds talking? snizzard sounds good to me. that's what i'll call them. snizzard droppings. and peter, it turns out the "bug eggs" were resin beads from our water softener. our water pressure was too high, so we had that fixed. however. . . the eggs seem to be reappearing. mystery still not quite over, but at least i know they're not going to hatch. diane Dear Diane, While I grew up in a different part of NC, I don't remember lizards! I do remember snakes and lots of droppings, but we were more rural. I've been gone for 32 years! (Please don't do the math. I'm not that old!) Here we have geckos but they don't leave droppings that we find. I mentioned this to my nature loving daughter (now 15 1/2) she became concerned. She said that anything with red is bleeding inside! (no, I don't think this is necessarily so) Take care, Vickie B. > Dear Diane, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Vickie B. > Dear Diane, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Vickie B. hmm, i think i just screwed up a message. sorry. so vickie, how big were those snake droppings? diane, still trying to figure it out kate, good to hear your sense of humor is intact. or maybe it's just the pain meds talking? snizzard sounds good to me. that's what i'll call them. snizzard droppings. might have been a rock n roll combo.<g> "snizzards" has been adopted into lexicon, cool. now, i can say i'm a darwinistic lexeme-ist.LOL kate kate and peter, it turns out the "bug eggs" were resin beads from our water softener. our water pressure was too high, so we had that fixed. however. . . the eggs seem to be reappearing. mystery still not quite over, but at least i know they're not going to hatch. diane We have lots of lizards around here in Florida and I've never noticed the type of dropping you are mentioning. We do get droppings from the frogs especially if we leave the porch light on overnight. DianeW > well, this is the first time i've lived any place that has lizards. > they are very slender, maybe 6 inches long, with electric blue tails. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > diane, nature girl (not) The white tip of the "scat" or dung is uric acid, the lizard's way of removing what it would if it urinated. This way the critter doesn't lose fluid, just the waste part of the body.. it's from a lizard. Snakes poop looks different. Uv (who thinks this is a shitty subject :o) ) thank you, uv! i love my little snizzards, but they sure do make a mess. found some poop on the vertical brick wall today, so i guess a snake couldn't have done it. diane Just occurred to me that birds leave droppings which usually contain a white uric acid element. Could it be that Hitchcock is planning a revival in your area ? Ps Thanks for resin/egg news. Peter > thank you, uv! i love my little snizzards, but they sure do make a > mess. found some poop on the vertical brick wall today, so i guess a > snake couldn't have done it. > > diane Just an FYI on pewp.. Snake scat tends to have hair and bones and harder almost recognizable protein matter in it due to the nature of what snakes eat vs. what snizzards eat. Lizards, at the size you're seeing, will eat bugs mostly ( a good reason to keep them around, consider each poop to be 50 mosquitoes and 100 gnats that you didn't have to be bitten by!). Snakes will eat frogs and mice and very small lizards (the kind that leave calling cards on your walls at night), and they only digest the soft tissues, so the waste is larger and distinctly hairy or boney.. you can all sigh a collective "EW" now.. Uv(herpetolowannabe) thank you for the lesson! the pewp is not bony, hairy, or otherwise repulsive. i'm finding my north carolina nature lessons fascinating. we can move on to talking about the amazing orbweavers that are all over my house exterior anytime you like. diane |
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